Currently defined as a powerful and important person, the term "bigwig" originated in the 17th century, when European nobility wore large wigs to show their high status. This series from the Pikes Peak Library District's 2014 Regional History Symposium, "Bigwigs & Benefactors of the Pikes Peak Region," presents a look at some of the significant people who have impacted the Pikes Peak region's history and development.​

Entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, and inventors have made the Pikes Peak Region a matchless place to live and work. Enterprise and Innovation in the Pikes Peak Region, the 2010 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium, featured presentations focusing on commerce, creativity, technology, tourism, transportation, and many other unique aspects of the region’s prosperity of the past, and potential for the future.

Leah Davis Witherow — Emcee

Dennis Daily -- Enterprise & Innovation in the Pikes Peak Region

Katie Rudolph -- Bumps in the Road- The Spirit of Enterprise & the Sociability Tour of 1914

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PPLD’s Pikes Peak Pastcast is an audio podcast of the presentations from the annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium events and other related content. The symposia, and affiliated Regional History Series of books and DVDs, chronicle the unique and often undocumented history of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West.